Hey, congratulations, John! Now we can refer to you as “Hugo-award-winning author John Scalzi.” :-)

In related news, I had no idea when I saw your and Mary’s reading on Thursday that I was witnessing history–HISTORY!–in the making: a recent winner of the John W. Campbell Award, alongside the soon-to-be winner of the John W. Campbell Award! Congrats to Mary on a job well done!

Congrats! You’ll now be famous for being the guy who finally topped Dave Langford :) Sorry that you didn’t get it for LAST COLONY. But ZOE’S TALE can still get it, so there’s hope. One out of two, it’s quite an accomplishment!

When I’m all grown up, I want an award shaped like a rocket ship. I hope the rocket part is detachable…it’d look silly flying it through the house and making whoosh sounds with the base still attached.

One out of two ain’t bad, my friend, and of course your writing about the genre does legitimately rock. Guess I’ll now have to read the book that dared to keep The Last Colony from giving you a matched set, and the work that enables your friend to wear the Campbellian tiara of awesomeness!

In the long tradition of the Whatever, I expect to see a bar graph soon with ‘pre-Hugo’ and ‘post-Hugo’ site stats, so that we can see the kind of boost that a Hugo for best fan writer gives to a site…!

John, I got two days’ pleasure reading The Yiddish Policemen’s Union — a virtual tie (or, at least, within a nine-vote margin) with the charge I got from The Last Colony. But I get pleasure every day from Whatever and your other online work. You’re the clear winner in my book (fanzine, short story, online novella, Rough Guide shelf, bookmarks, etc.). Congratulations on your well-deserved, hard-earned Hugo.

Erbo @7: I do know of at least one author whose publisher stuck ‘Hugo Winner!’ on his books while neglecting to mention that it was a fan Hugo; I’ve stored that information away in case I ever write an SF novel.

Congratulations John!!! Very well deserved. Awesome speech and it was awesome to see you win a Hugo! i would have loved to see you win for best novel as well but by only nine votes, that is incredible in itself.

We are looking forward to seeing you get best novel in Montreal next year, see you there! (I still need a picture with the bear, stoopid camera )

Thanks again for all the great panels at Denvention and all you do for SciFi Fans everywhere Way to go!